Water-wheel



UNITED STATES .IOHN HASELTINE, OF GOFFSTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

WATER-WH EEL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 14,535, dated March 25,1856.

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN HASELTINE, of

` Goffstown, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water- Vheels 'andI do hereby declare that the same are described and represented in thefollowing specication and drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art torina-ke and use my improvements, Iwill proceed to describe their construction and operation, referring tothe drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each ofthe tigures.

Figure l is a plan or top View of the wheel surrounded by`a scroll whichconducts the water onto the wheel. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the shaftwi th one fioatvor bucket extending from each side. Fig, 3 is arepresentation of the Linder side of the wheel.

The nature of my invention consists in inaking the outer portion of thelloat upon which the water acts first radial, the inner portion, whichreceives the second action of the water, tangential, and the lowerportion, upon which the water acts by its weight, to incline downwardfrom the shaft or center of the wheel and from the tangential portion ofthe floats.

In the abovementioned drawings, A is a scroll by which the wheel B issupplied with water. It is iliade so deep as to allow the radial andperpendicular portion f of the floats to turn freely in it while itgradually diminishes in width to its termination. The radial portionofthe float f is connected to the shaft D of the wheel B by the tangentialportion C of the iioat, which is made perpendicular or parallel with theshaft D, as represented. The inclined portion Cf of the float is joinedto thelower edge ofthe tangential portion so as to incline downward from`the tangential portion to its edge, and from the shaft to itsperiphery, or where it joins the hoop E, which hoop E surrounds theextremities of the inclined portion C of the floats and may be joinedtothem. ThehoopEis representedin sectioninFig. 2. The shaftD is providedwith pivots Gr G, which may be fitted to turn in appropria-te boXes ttedfor them. The floats above mentioned may be made of wood orof wrought orcast iron, or the wheel may be cast whole,

as preferred. The water enters the scroll A, as indicated by the arrows,and acts rst on the radial portions f j' of the iioats, and as it isconfined on the outside by the scroll it necessarily turns toward theshaft of the wheel and acts on the tangential portion C of the floats,and after it has communicated its inotion to the radial and tangentialportions of the iioats it- (the water) acts by its Weight on theinclined portions C of the floats, which slip from under it as itYdescends and leaves the wheel, and as the inclined portions C of 'theiloats descend from the tangential portion and from the shaft D theWater has a tendency7 to iiow or run toward the periphery of the wheelas it descends through it, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2.

It is confidently believed by those who use l this wheel that it yieldsa greater amount of effective power than any other in proportion to itscost and the quantity of Water'applied to it..

I believe thatI have described the construction, operation, and use ofinyiinprovenients so as to enable any person skilled in the art to makeand use them. I will now specify what I desire to secure by LettersPatent, to wit:

I claim- Making the outer portion f of the floats radial, the secondportion C tangential, and the third and last portion C to inclinedownward from the shaft D and from the tangential portion C when thesame or the several parts are constructed, combined, and arrangedsubstantially as described, so that the water will y act against the twofirst by propulsion and upon the latter by its weight.

JOHN HASELTINE.

Witnesses:

- JOSEPH B. CLARK, J No. D. IEVING.

